Tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement
AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsErnst Riegler, Manfred Schmidt
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Abstract
A tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a converter for a steel making plant, has carrying trunnions, a fixed bearing, an expansion bearing, bearing housings for the bearings, and force measuring means resting on a supporting construction with bearing housings resting on the force measuring means. Vertical sliding faces provided on each bearing housing and on the supporting construction at both sides of the carrying trunnion axes form guides and counter-guides that engage each other so as to prevent horizontal motion of the bearing housings in the direction of the axes of the carrying trunnions.
Claims6
In a tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a converter to be used in a steel making plant, of the type including horizontal carrying trunnions for carrying the vessel, a fixed bearing and an expansion bearing accommodating the carrying trunnions, bearing housings in which the fixed bearing and the expansion bearing are arranged, force measuring means for mounting the bearing housings thereon, and a supporting construction, the force measuring means resting on the supporting construction, vertical guide means with their lateral dimension extending parallel to the axes of the carrying trunnions for guiding the bearing housings thereon, the improvement characterized in that the vertical guide means are constituted by vertical sliding faces provided on each bearing housing and on the supporting construction at both sides of the axes of the carrying trunnions so as to form guides and counter-guides engaging each other so as to prevent horizontal movement of the bearing housings in the direction of the axes of the carrying trunnions.
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